Vow: The teenage victim of teacher Jeremy Forrest, pictured, has said that she will wait for him when he comes out of prison and wants to have his babies

The schoolgirl abducted by her married maths teacher has revealed that she wants to have his children.

The besotted teenager, who was barely 15 when Jeremy Forrest took her virginity, insists he is not a paedophile and said that, if anything, she groomed him.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has vowed to wait for Forrest, 30, until he is released from prison.

‘I want to spend the rest of my life with him and maybe once he’s out, we can marry and have children together,’ she said. ‘I love Jeremy so much. I don’t want anyone else.’

Forrest was jailed last month after the pair ran away to France last September fearing their sexual relationship was about to be exposed.

‘I do blame myself for Jeremy being in prison,’ the girl said in an interview with the Sun. ‘I instigated the relationship in the first place and it was my suggestion to run away.’

Forrest was sentenced to five and a half years for child abduction and five counts of sexual activity with a child. He must also sign the sex offenders’ register for life.

Despite this the girl, now 16, said: ‘Jeremy is not a paedophile. If anything, I groomed him.’

She claims that Forrest did not know she was a virgin until after they started having sex at the start of the summer holidays last year, but they then made love ‘every other day’.

She added: ‘When I said he was my ‘‘first’’ he didn’t know what to say. He was shocked that he had taken my virginity.’

Budding relationship: The pair grew close on a school trip to Los Angeles when Forrest comforted her as she was struggling with her bulimia

She said they would have sex in his Ford Fiesta or in hotels, where they would check in as Mr and Mrs Forrest. But she also revealed that they would meet for sex sessions at Forrest’s home while his wife Emily, 32, was away.

She said: ‘At one stage I did think, “What if his wife walks in?” He said his wife would just have to deal with it. It was reassuring to know I was not his secret – but if his wife had seen my school uniform she would have realised I was a pupil.’

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The pair were caught in Bordeaux after a week on the run when Forrest – whose wife is said to be divorcing him – tried to find bar work using the false name Jack Francis Dean.

The girl, who used the alias Gemma Grant while in France, admits that having sex may have made her grow up too quickly but firmly believes Forrest is ‘the one’ and said she ‘was growing up way too soon anyway’.

The teenager has been living with her stepfather after her relationship with her mother deteriorated.

On the run: Jeremy Forrest and the schoolgirl pictured on the ferry to France after their relationship came to light last year

She said that waiting for Forrest to come out of prison would mean she will ‘miss out on a lot of things, like meeting teenage boys’. But she said: ‘I’ll have someone who truly loves me and I love him back.

‘I don’t have to go through the hassle and heartbreak of seeing lots of boys to find the right one. I have found him and I feel very lucky.’

The teenager accepted that Forrest had ‘crossed a line’ and said, from the outside, ‘I would completely disagree with what happened’. But she claimed the pair could not help how they felt.

Jailing Forrest at Lewes Crown Court, Judge Michael Lawson QC said he had ‘ignored the cardinal rule of teaching’ by not even attempting to maintain proper boundaries between himself and a pupil.

He said that by taking the girl to France, he subjected her family to ‘appalling distress’, adding: ‘Your behaviour has been motivated by self-interest and has hurt and damaged many people.’

The pair first started to fall for each other after they bonded over their similar music tastes while she was in detention at Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

They then became closer on a school trip to Los Angeles, when Forrest caught the attention of other teachers as he sat and held the girl’s hand on the plane – something she claims he was doing to comfort her as she struggled with bulimia.

Forrest claimed that he had not abducted the girl but went to France with her reluctantly in the belief that she would self-harm otherwise, but the jury refused to believe this.